Did You Know?
- According to scientists, there is an average of one million different species of animals living in the ocean.
- Corn and cotton have been genetically modified to produce a toxin that kills insects.
- Sharks mistake fiber cables in the ocean for distressed fish. Google had to wrap its cables in Kevlar material in order to prevent sharks from feeding on them.
- Bacteria and other microbes are used to clean up oil spills due to their ability to consume oil droplets.
- Whether a turtle will be male or female is determined by the temperature at which the eggs are incubated.
- Human beings have the same amount of hair as chimpanzees. Our hair has become extremely fine with evolution, whereas theirs remains thick to form a protective layer over the skin.
- Likewise, goosebumps are visible due to the thinness of our body hair. These evolutionary predecessors are meant to make fur rise to keep the body warm.
- The ocean contains more historic artifacts than museums around the world.
- 75% of the world’s freshwater is stored in glaciers.
- One ostrich egg is the same size as twenty-four chicken eggs.
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